(If you've been waiting for this, I apologize for it taking a while. I have been ill. By the way, Lost Remembrance can you ask me what you're confused about? I'll try and answer if you'd like. I always try to make sure my writing is simple but yet cool and detailed. I apologize if it was hard for you to understand.)
Heero walked in a lively meadow. Here, the squirrels were playing with each other, the birds chirped happily sitting on the branches. Not only that, but it appeared that it was also mating season for the two animals as each male was trying to impress the females and the females doing their best to make the males see hoe comely they were. He laughed seeing the time of happiness amongst the creatures.
Placing his hand over his face to look up at the sunny and azure sky up above in the heavens,(like how Heero does in the opening part of the T.V. show if you know what I mean) he tried to see as much as he could of the sky. The birds that were lucky enough to find a soulmate for themselves happily flapped through the air together with their partner. Seeing them in their state of bliss made wonder what love was really like. "I wonder what's like..." he thought until he was interrupted.
"Hey Heero!" called a voice. He looked over and saw Jasmine waving at him. "Come over here!" she said. As he was taking a few steps over, another voice called out to him, but he didn't remember hearing it before: "Hey Heero come join me!" When he looked over to see who it was, he saw a young woman around his and Jasmine's age. She had mild honey brown hair that extended to her back. Her eyes were sapphire blue colored and her face was very pretty. As if hypnotized by her words, he went to walk over in her direction. "Heero! I thought you were coming over to me!" Jasmine said her temper just beginning to boil. So he did as he was told. But then this other girl said the same thing to him. So he followed her directions. And then Jasmine said this, and that, and then the other girl said this and that and he listened to her and then Jasmine...the echoes of their voices didn't leave his head.
Heero suddenly woke up sweating from his dream. Whoa!... He wiped some sweat off his face. Knock! Knock! Knock!He heard knocking on his door when he got up from his bed. He walked over and opened the door. Quatre was in is doorway's view smiling.
"Good morning" he said to Heero, being the first to greet.
"What do you want?" he asked him instead of returning with a greeting.
"Listen, I'm sorry about last night. But I'd like to discuss this with you in private. May you please come with me?" Heero thought for a moment. Well I don't have anything to do here anyway. So he agreed.
It was a hot sunny day in the desert. Here, there were cactuses, rarely a small fresh water pond with a palm tree by it, and the boring yellow sand itself. And a man.
He was a tall muscular man wearing sunglasses, had short dark gray hair with a skinny pigtail at the back, and wore a red coat that covered a metal top tank he had on. In one hand, he carried a large sword and used it as a walking cane.
It looked like he was out in the middle of no where in a no man's wasteland. But it just simply looked like he was "out in the middle of nowhere". He was a man who had always relied on how he felt about the paths out there to choose from for following. After waiting a few moments to see which was the way to go, he walked in what a normal material witness would think was walking in any old random direction. A cool wind continuously passed by him in the direction he chose. Always trust your instincts.
After what seemed like a long walk with Heero following close behind, Quatre finally found the library he had spoken of. When he opened the doors Heero saw airy bookshelves that were like towers and the large star shaped windows that ruled the walls. Each row of the shelves were crammed with books. And in the background, there were people who appeared to be doing research, reading books, putting books back on shelves, and taking out books as well.
"The royal family has always valued knowledge. Because they felt that anyone who wishes to learn should be able to learn, they decided to make their private library a public one for anyone" Quatre explained taking a seat and Heero across from him.
"Alright, now are you going to give me my explanation?" Heero said not interested about the topic Quatre was talking about.
"Yes. Ok"
"There has been a closely guarded legend about an evil power of some sort. And this evil is supposed to somehow destroy the world unless the destined one with the power is able to defeat it" he began.
"Just what exactly is this evil?" Heero interrupted.
Uneffected by his rudeness, he replied back: "The texts don't say; it is the natural evil located in the heart of the world. A world that everyone has. The only one I know of is this"
Continuing on with the story, he began where he left off: "Now the hero must travel all around the world and collect information to find out what to do. It is said that once he had completed his quest for knowledge he will either doom or save the world"
"Last night you said I was the chosen didn't you?" he inquired again.
"You're correct"
"Well how do you know it's me then?"
"The prophecy says this: He shall appear in the darkest corner of the world unaware of his true destiny. He will be found by the tenacious one"
Heero thought over what Quatre just said. Tenacious one?
"Well how is it possible that I might doom this world?"
"I guess it depends on what your interests are. If you have a certain interest and wish for it to be true, then it might bring out the world's doom or salvation. No one knows much about it. It's all a mystery"
"So I also get to make a wish?" Heero asked.
"Yes. That's right"
"Now let me ask you a question Heero" he said as if he had been putting up with something for quite awhile.
"I want to know why you don't know any of this at all" he continued and finished making his point.
It's simple. I'm from another world.
"I- Heero began but was cut off by someone crying for help.
"Help! Someone is attacking City Central!" someone cried. There were people running and screaming.
I was getting bored Heero thought. Without a word he ran off into the direction where all the attention was coming from.
"Heero wait!" Quatre called after, but he didn't listen. So he ran after him.
(A/N: I dunno how to describe this city but I suggest that you try to imagine a middle eastern kinda place. Sry.)
When Heero finally got to City Central there were fires everywhere. And so were the rather funny looking arsonists. Were they for real? One was a samurai in bright red armor and wielded two katana in his hands. The other was just a little red dragon and he said: "I am Mushu!" The third and last one was a very big turtle with a big face. He had a pair of horns coming out of his head, orange hair, and a bulky body. On his neck and arms were spiked collars.
"Alright! So where is this guy we're looking for?!" said the samurai in red.
"Yeah! Where is he! I can't wait to fry 'em up!" said the little dragon.
"Just have a little patience you fools!" said the giant turtle. He took out what looked like a compass. He turned around in all kinds of direction and when he turned in a certain one, it beeped harder. Finally it gave a very loud beep, which meant that the target was very near. Turning from the compass, he looked over at Heero. "There he is!" Get him!" Heero, in response ran away.
What in the world was going on?! I'm being chased by a samurai wanna-be, some fire breathing snake, and a fat overgrown tortoise! What do they even want with me! As he ran, he dared to look behind him. The giant tortoise was too large and slow to catch up with him. The samurai wanna-be though faster was also too slow. I guess that armor is too heavy. But the small skinny serpent was the fastest and it looked like he was catching up.
Since Heero had never been here before, he didn't know anything about the streets and ran in any random street and path. And it seemed that he had made a bad choice during one of the turns. He was now in a dead-ended alley with garbage cans. Oh no...
"Here, take this" said a deep clear voice. Out of no where, a sword span in the air and landed right in front of Heero as it made its way into the ground by piercing. Without hesitation, he plucked it right out of the great and made a nice fast, and, easy swing to make sure he was comfortable with it. It was a blade designed like a feather having detailed features showing every little fur piece. It shined with reflection from the kissing of the sunlight. It feels just right.
By now, the small serpent caught up with him. "Alright! Now you're toast!" he said. He aimed and shot a skinny flame ray that seemed quite similar to a laser from his mouth. With perfect timing and position, Heero motioned his sword right in front of him and it deflected the flame ray as it bounced off the blade. It went back to the user as fast as light itself. Sizzle! Sizzle! The little dragon now looked charred and fainted to the sand floor with X's on his eyes.
"Don't think you're getting off that easily!" said the samurai in red who had caught up by now. "No one ever defeats Ryo of Wildfire!"
Having finished that line, Ryo went over to make an upper swing at Heero's torso and a lower swing aiming at his legs and with serviceable speed and power too. But the feather sword was much lighter than his old sword and he was able to block both blows with ease. But Ryo hit with a lot of strength. It resulted in him having to deal with the recoil from Heero's parrying as an equal amount of force comes back at you when you hit something. Taking advantage of the time he was given, Heero moved over and made a lightning fast punch in the face. Ryo collapsed over.
But now the large turtle had also caught up. Making no opening lines, he moved over and punched Heero. He flew back a couple feet and landed on the ground. Then he got up and tried to slash the turtle, but it seemed that his thick shell would more than easily take the abuse. Again, the turtle punched him, but this time he flew back a few yards and crashed even harder.
Lifting his head up the ground but too injured to easily lift up his body and face quickly, he stayed there immobilized.
"Let me handle this" said the same voice he heard earlier. When Heero looked up, he saw the back of a tall muscular man with dark gray hair in a red coat in front of him. In his hand was a large heavy sword.
"I don't know who you think you are, but I the great Bowser will defeat you alongside with him!" he roared at the newcomer. But the man didn't waste time talking. He quickly ran up to the turtle and made a slash before Bowser could counter with a punch.
"Arggggghhhhhhh!" Bowser screamed. The man's sword was heavy enough that it could hurt his shell. Now to finish the fight, he positioned his great sword like agolf club and swung Bowser down the alley. He crashed into the wall.
"Listen, we'll be back!" Bowser barked and did his best to run away. Mushu and Ryo got up and followed him making curses at Heero and the new man who had just appeared.
(A/N: I actually planned for this chapter to be longer, but I think I've reached the point where it should end. Read&Review!)
For those of you who don't know:
Mushu appeared in Disney's Mulan which was released in the 1990's.
Ryo was the main character in the anime show Ronin Warriors which used to air on Cartoon Network's Toonami in the late 90's.
Bowser has appeared in Nintendo games that starred Mario. He is Mario's archenemy.
The new guy's identity will be revealed in the next chapter! (Hint: You should know who this is if you've played Final Fantasy X.)
Well I hoped you liked it! Sorry if Quatre's and Heero's conversation was so boring. Come back soon to read the next chapter of Final Fantasy: The Eternal Wings of Passion!
Adios! See ya there!